Teaching Spanish CAN Be Easy! Speekee®!

Teaching Spanish doesn’t have to be hard! It can be easy, fun and engaging with Speekee®!

Make Teaching Spanish Easy and FUN with Speekee®!

Have you ever heard of Speekee®? It is a Spanish program for young children ranging in age from two to 10.

As a homeschool family, we were given the opportunity to review “Speekee® TV” which is their online version. {As of the update of this post in 2024 all their learning options are online} Exciting and perfect for us, it also comes with “Speekee® FastTrack” which is an already prepared set of lesson plans!

Speekee® Spanish Learning Options (Subscriptions)

1. Speekee® FastTrack

FastTrack is homeschool Spanish curriculum for children aged 4-7. Speekee® FastTrack helps your child develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using Spanish language and grammar appropriate for real life communication.

With Speekee® FastTrack children are engaged by the range of teaching materials, designed to meet the needs of individual learning styles.

Quite honestly, when I first watched one of the online videos – by myself – I thought, “This is crazy, he’s not going to learn anything from this!” but low and behold if my four and a half year old son didn’t LOVE the videos and enjoy singing right along with the kids! I WAS AMAZED! From the second time watching, he was singing!

You can watch the videos with the words across the bottom in both Spanish and English ~ but they suggest you turn off the closed caption so you don’t feel the need to help your child. Speekee® uses ‘immersion’ which means the students are totally saturated with Spanish (this is similar to other VERY POPULAR adult Spanish programs) with as little (preferably no) English usage while learning the new language as possible.

Speekee and Jim

The videos have catchy tunes and bright colors – perfect for young children.  The children in the videos speak fluent Spanish so there is no confusion as to how the words should be said (except that this mother doesn’t speak Spanish! LOL). And the creator, Jim, is in the videos too – isn’t that fun! All around, we really enjoyed this program! The only thing I would like to mention is that the site is a little confusing to navigate – other than that we LOVE Speekee®!

2. Speekee® Accelerate

Speekee® Accelerate is homeschool Spanish curriculum for children aged 8+. This is a 40 week structured program for Spanish featuring 160 Homeschool activities with videos, printables and music. Parents can view lesson plans online or have them emailed to them each week.

Speekee® Accelerate‘s 40 week plan maximizes every child’s Spanish learning. Every week there are 4 suggested activities for you, with corresponding video clips, worksheets and other downloads. Taking just a few minutes, each activity accelerates understanding and use of Spanish.

This is a sample of the Accelerate Lesson Plans provided:

Here is a worksheet for Week 29, Day 2:

These Speekee® monthly subscriptions include Spanish Printables

Speekee® Spanish Printables – Use these 300+ printables by themselves, or as part of the Speekee® FastTrack or Speekee® Accelerate programs.

Topics include: Alphabet, Animals, Body, Classroom, Clothes, Colors, Commands, Conversations, Counting, Countries, Days of the Week, Directions, Family, Feelings, Food & Drink, Greetings, Hobbies, House, Introductions, Months of the Year, Musical Instruments, Numbers, Opposites, Places, Seasons, Shapes, Sports, Times, Transportation and Weather.

Speekee® monthly subscriptions also include TV and Play

With Speekee® TV children learn Spanish quickly through immersion in real Spanish language. Featuring real Spanish children speaking real Spanish, Speekee® TV develops excellent listening and accurate pronunciation.

Speekee® Play offers safe online gameplay with encourages problem solving as well as developing language skills. With Speekee® Play children immerse themselves in Spanish with this virtual world.

Speekee® Spanish Learning Options (Non-Subscriptions)

1. iHola Speekee®

iHola Speekee® is a 10 week series of FREE Spanish lessons for children at home.

There are three different age groups: up to 7 years, 7 to 9 years and 9-11 years

And 10 Themes (a new one each week): Greetings, Numbers, Days/Months, Age, Colors, Animals, Family, Food, Likes/Dislikes, and Hobbies.

2. Speekee® Español on Spotify

This is the soundtrack to Speekee® Series 1. This Spotify playlist consists of 34 songs for a total listening time of 53 minutes and 54 seconds.

More Teaching Spanish Options for Homeschool

• 5 Best Language Learning Apps for Kids to Learn Spanish at Home – This article not only takes a look at 5 of the best language learning apps for kids, but it also talks about what things to look for when evaluating these learning apps.
• Mas Spanish –  is a unit-based homeschool curriculum designed for students between grades 7 – 12. Because it is designed for middle to high school age learners, it is designed with little parental involvement needed.
• Spanish Fun Activity Calendar – The aptly named Spanish Fun Activity Calendar uses a Charlotte Mason methodology to teach Spanish. We use this calendar with our children who are Pre-K to 8th grade.
• Speedy Spanish Level 1 – With Speedy Spanish students learn Spanish through memorization, Christian songs, Bible verses and games. This program is very simplistic and level 1 is most definitely a level 1 program – meeting your entry level child at his placement.
• The Easy Spanish – Charlotte Mason Style Learning – This approach is multi-faceted with listening, narrating aloud, and then writing in Spanish. It is also multi-leveled so you can offer Spanish to all your children with one book and one plan.

~ Originally published September 201. Written by Dawn.